Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream Moore Peter
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness is a spirited reexamination of the most famous words in American history, and the remarkable international context from which they emerged.Thomas Jefferson…
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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness is a spirited reexamination of the most famous words in American history, and the remarkable international context from which they emerged.Thomas Jefferson never actually penned the phrase for which he is best known. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" was how he originally put it, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with "the preservation of." In a statement as pithy--and contested--as this, a small deletion speaks volumes. And indeed, that final, iconizing revision was the last in a daisy chain of revisions stretching across the Atlantic and the English Channel and back. The precise contours of these three rights have never been pinned down--the words themselves are so slippery as to practically fall off the tongue--and yet in making these words into rights, Jefferson
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